SUMMARY

• 8 years of hands on Quality Assurance and testing experience with software development life cycle, Quality Assurance methodologies, requirements analysis, writing test plans and test cases based on business, systems, & design requirements; test Automation, test scripts execution, defect reporting and tracking, and performing of all phases of test cycles.
• Well experienced in testing both Manual and Automated testing of Client Server and Web applications.
• Strong hands on experience in Manual Testing and Automated Testing using HP Quality Center and Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Experience in developing Frameworks (Data - driven, Keyword- driven) for checking positive and negative test scenarios using Automation tools like Quick Test Pro.
• Proficient in writing Functional and System test cases in Quality Center.
• Developed Test plans, Test cases and test scripts manually and using automation tools like Quick Test Pro, Quality Center.
• Involved in Functionality Testing, Black Box Testing, System testing, Load/Performance, Ad-hoc testing, Smoke Testing, Integration Testing, GUI Testing, Back-end Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Regression Testing.
• Proficient in Test Director and Quality Center for Test Execution and Defect Tracking.
• Executed Test scripts using QTP to test the Database.
• Solid Back End Testing experience by writing and executing SQL Queries for MS SQL Server & Oracle Database.
• Well versed with QA Methodologies like Waterfall, V-Shape, RUP, Agile, and Scrum.
• Worked closely with team leads in establishingQAProcedure/Standard Method, Preparing Test Plan and analyzing Software requirement specification and Design Documentation.
• Participated in walk through and defect report meetings weekly and periodically with making detailed plans to accomplish goals.
• Vast experience apart from excellent communication and interpersonal skills helps contribute to timely completion of project deliverables well short of schedule.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management Tools: Test Director, Quality Center

Defect Tracking Tool: Test Director, Quality Center

Test Automation Tools: Quick Test Professional

Programming Languages: C, C++, VB, HTML, XML, SQL

Scripting Languages: VB Script

Operating Systems: Windows (NT/2000/XP/Vista/7)

Database: MS SQL Server 2008/2005/2000 , Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NYC, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and understanding the BRD of the application to develop the System Test Scenarios and System Test scripts.
• Involved in Modifications or Rework to existing manual test cases to automated test case whenever there is a change or enhancement in functionality of the application.
• Coordinated with Business, Developers to drill down business requirements, customization and testing requirements.
• Closely Monitored requirements, Functional specifications and updated the Scenarios and Scripts as per the changes.
• Developed Data-Driven framework using VB Script in Quick Test Pro.
• Responsible in writing the test scripts and enhancing the test scripts and execute the test scripts using QTP.
• Performed Regression Testing, Positive Testing and Negative Testing for the projects involved.
• Finding and Reporting the Product related defects through Quality Center.
• Involved in all phases and stages of Software testing life cycle including end-to-end system testing and business requirements analysis.
• Extensively used Quality Center in writing, uploading and executing Test Scripts. Also for Defect Tracking of the bugs for re-test and close operations
• Supported end users for UAT Testing
• Attended Status meetings & Updated the management with Daily & Weekly Status report of all the Testing activities.

Environment: QTP 10, VB Script, Quality Center 10, Windows XP, MS SQL Server, Siebel CRM, MS Excel, MS Word.

Confidential, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Requirements estimation, Requirements Review meetings with the Business Analyst.
• Provided project management with detailed estimates of QA testing effort for all new features and enhancements and communicated testing status to product management
• Developed test scripts for various test scenarios using design specifications.
• Tested the application utilizing the agile methodology.
• Responsibilities included organizing the daily standup Meetings, prepare the test plan, the test log and tracking sheet, defect summary report, execution plan
• Developed SQL Queries to query the database to test the back end process of the application
• Tracked all the bugs using Quality Center tracking system and generated reports.
• Generated Execution status and defect reports to provide project status to upper management.
• Coordinated the testing between onsite and offshore resources.
• Participating in Bug reviews and QA weekly status meetings

Environment: Quality Center, QTP 9.5, VB Script, Window 2003, SQL Server 2005, MS Office.

Confidential, NJ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparation and execution of Test Scripts using QTP.
• Manually tested the application functionality and developed Automation test scripts to perform functional and regression testing and prepared automation test scripts, Methods and functions in QTP.
• Involved in the preparation of Test Plan as per business requirement.
• Prepared Test Cases in Quality Center based on Use-Cases and Requirements, and executed test scripts to verify actual results against expected results.
• Written Test Cases and Performed GUI, Functionality, System, Integration, Regression, UAT, Black Box testing.
• Analyzed Software and Business Requirements documents to get a better understanding of the system from both technical and business perspectives.
• Automated test cases, for data driven tests and linked test scripts using QTP to perform Regression testing of different application versions.
• Executed regression tests at each new build in QTP.
• Involved in peer Reviews and Team Walkthroughs for the project as per Test methodology.
• Executing, Reporting and Tracking the defects using Quality Center.
• Performed Data Driven Testing using QTP for testing the application for multiple data.
• Interacted with developers and Users to resolve critical and major bugs.
• Created and maintained regression test suite to check the progress of the testing process by performing identical tests before and after fixing defects.

Environment: Manual Testing, QTP 9.5, VB Script, Quality Center 9.2, Windows XP, Oracle, MS-office

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Converted business and functional requirements into test cases and performed Manual Testing like Positive Testing and Negative Testing.
• Mapping Test Cases to the Functional and business requirements creating a trace matrix.
• Involved in writing test scripts and functions in Test Script Language using QTP for automated testing.
• Conducted Back-end testing using SQL query analyzer to validate the data in the back-end Database.
• QTP was used to automate Regression testing after each enhancement of the application.
• Performed GUI, integration and system testing.
• Interacted with Developers for defect analysis and investigating the software faults.

Environment: Manual Testing, Windows NT, MS Office, TOAD, Oracle, QTP, Java, HTML, XML, Test director.